This reminds me of an incident I just had last week.  My TV is being repaired, so thought I would watch a DVD on my notebook while I work on my main box.  My notebook is XP home since I had to do work on MFC programs for school awhile back.
<br><br>Trying to play any dvd would give me the lovely error along the lines, &quot;Windows Media Player can not play this DVD due to Digital Copy Protection.&quot;&nbsp; I thought that was pretty weird.&nbsp; I had played dvds just fine before, so I tried windvd and it still doesn't work.&nbsp; Follow the help links to see what could possibly be different and somehow I keep ending up at M$'s site giving me links to spend ~$20 for a dvd decoder program.&nbsp; 
<br><br>I felt pretty mad being directed to spend more money to watch the dvds that I own.&nbsp; Needless to say, my notebook is now running FC4 and playing dvds just fine with xine and <span class="q">'libdvdcss'.</span><br><br>
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